‘Auntie Maxine’ Waters Goes

After Trump and Goes Viral

Maxine Waters has been in Congress for a

quarter-century, but in President Trump, her barbed

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1. Waters has a 28 percent liberty score on Conservative Review's scorecard. And yet there are several California congressional members with lower liberty scores than her, showing just how far left the state is. But make no mistake, Waters is radically left.

1. Waters has praised the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. "Viva Fidel!" Waters chanted in 2000 when the brutal dictator spoke at a church in Harlem. Waters also has a history of opposing the trade embargo on Cuba and was in favor of extraditing 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to Cuba in 1999.

1. Waters referred to the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a "rebellion." "If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason," Waters said. "I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion."

1. Waters once perpetuated a conspiracy theory that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for supplying blacks in the inner cities with crack cocaine. Waters was highlighting a series of articles from the San Jose Mercury News that claimed to show a connection between the CIA and the drug trade, but the paper eventually backed away from the story after they were eviscerated by various other news outlets. That didn't deter Waters from holding tight to the conspiracy theory.

1. Waters has been making some horrendous gaffes since the election. These include:

1. She didn't know the name of Trump's chief of staff.

"Let me just say this, Mike Preibus…"

1. When she told reporters that Russia invaded Korea.

"The fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea."

1. When she called Trump and his aides a bunch of ‘scumbags.'

"This is a bunch of scumbags. That's what they are."

1. Waters revealed her greatest desire.

"And my greatest desire is to lead him right into impeachment."

1. She referred to Trump as a dictator.

"People are not gonna take this new president who thinks he's a dictator."

1. Her hope that Trump's presidency is cut short.

"Well, I hope he's not there for four years."

1. How she gives President Trump no respect.

"I won't rejoice in him being the president, I don't honor him, and so I did not go to that inauguration. Never intended to go to it."

1. When she came up with a new nickname for Trump and his aides.

"He can't continue to try to defend this president, who is entangled with this Kremlin clan of his, while they are all seeking really to get rid of these sanctions that are placed on Russia because all of them are connected to the oil and gas industry."

1. Waters has a history of corruption. Waters helped steer bailout money in 2008 toward OneUnited; she failed to disclose that her husband, Sidney Williams, owned OneUnited stock and used to be a board member of the bank. Additionally, in 2002 Waters attempted to pressure regulators to block a merger between the Family Savings bank and FBOP Corp., to open the door for the Boston Bank of Commerce – the name of OneUnited at the time – to merge with Family Savings. While the regulators didn't uphold her request, Waters' public campaign eventually resulted in the Boston Bank of Commerce merging with Family Savings into OneUnited. Waters and her husband bought OneUnited stock in 2004.

This is why the George Soros-funded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has rated Waters as among the most corrupt members of Congress.

Waters' ties to OneUnited sparked a three-year ethics investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which resulted in the committee determining that she didn't technically violate any rules. They did, however, give her grandson and chief of staff, Mikael Moore, a slap on the wrist for going "behind the congresswoman's back to continue to lobby for special treatment."

"At best, that shows that Waters runs a haphazard office," wrote Phillip Wegmann at The Washington Examiner. "At worst, it suggests she deliberately took steps to avoid prosecution."